Cloudflare
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Hybrid +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Partners with strategic customers to design, prototype, and launch production systems on Cloudflare, while sharing product insights with Cloudflare teams.
What you'll do
- Guide customer teams on scalable architecture, build prototypes and reusable reference implementations, and review code.
- Diagnose technical issues and help customers move applications from idea to production across the Cloudflare platform.
- Share customer feedback and product gaps with Product and Engineering teams and build technical relationships with customer leaders.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing engineering work with external teams.
- Experience with modern languages such as TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
- Production experience owning mission-critical services and broad technical fluency across frontend, backend, data, and distributed infrastructure.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including serverless, networking, and security primitives.
Nice to have
- Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform.
- Public profile through open-source contributions, technical blogging, or conference speaking.
Tools
TypeScript, Rust, Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Workers, Workers AI
AI focus
Integrate AI-augmented development workflows into daily work to accelerate prototyping and delivery; support Cloudflare AI products including Workers AI, AI Gateway, and Vectorize.
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